Gold Fever: The Return to the Stanislaus

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  • čas přidán 19. 04. 2024
  • In this Gold Fever episode produced in 2009 for Gold Prospectors Association of America and Outdoor Channel, Tom Massie and his daughter Shae revisit a golden hot spot in the California Motherlode to do some dredging. They visit the LDMA Italian Bar mining camp, and uncover some great stories, memories, and of course gold. Metal detecting, gold panning, and gold dredging techniques are used on the South Fork of the Stanislaus River.

Komentáře • 46

  • @croatiansensation6062
    @croatiansensation6062 Před 2 měsíci +1

    America needs mining and this type of show on TV.

  • @B0xlife1
    @B0xlife1 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Miss you guys! So glad to see you all! Post more often please! Love these old episodes!

  • @bigjm3143
    @bigjm3143 Před 3 měsíci +7

    I miss those shows of gold prospecting

  • @arminiusgratis9439
    @arminiusgratis9439 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Watched the Buzzard videos back around 1990. Started a 30 year adventure of Prospecting for Gold in the Colorado Rockies !!! Enjoyed Tommy's videos over the years. Thank you, for all that you guys do.

    • @rh5563
      @rh5563 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I really miss these guys on the airwaves. I know we can’t bring George back, but Tom and Perry are still alive and kicking. The Outdoor Channel really did them dirty. We lost Prospecting America and Gold Fever. The fact that George founded that channel, just pisses me off even more.

  • @RonnieFrancis
    @RonnieFrancis Před 3 měsíci +2

    I miss the "GOLD FEVER" shows so bad. People knew I watched it & they would start singing the song. COVID screwed up a lot of stuff but I hope with the GPAA & The Outdoor Channel that you can start back up again. I'm a proud member & learned so much starting off by watching you Tom. Like the tap, tap, tap to walk the gold to the side of the pan & to clean it up really good. But I still have gold fever. Great episode & the fever rages on.

  • @jamescarroll4116
    @jamescarroll4116 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Please produce more! Loved the old shows

  • @Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782
    @Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I used to watch the Buzzard way back when gold was only $400(?) an ounce. I have been a fan ever since.

  • @brianthayer9784
    @brianthayer9784 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Miss the show I'm glad I was able to sit down and talk to you and more it was a pleasure to sit down and talk with your dad he was easy to talk to.

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS EPISODE! I remember Shae just picks up that motor like it was nothing! She must have been 16 or so at the time. Insane. Those nugs at the end…. Nothing beats that $hit.

  • @user-wu5gg6wq5w
    @user-wu5gg6wq5w Před 3 měsíci +1

    TOM LOVE,LOVE,LOVE YOUR SHOWS PLEASE BRING BACK MORE ,CAN'T GET ENOUGH.WE LOVE YOU !

  • @TheMadness51
    @TheMadness51 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Buzzard and Tom via tv introduced me to chasing the butter yella. 24 years later, I still have the want to find the gold. Thank you for giving me the Fever.

  • @GSProspecting
    @GSProspecting Před 3 měsíci +2

    What a blast fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 Před 3 měsíci +5

    No freaking way! One of my favorite episodes on Gold Fever! Only a very few episodes posted on this site. It’s a shame. The Buzzard would be proud of the association he started, would not let episodes of Gold Fever and Prospecting America be lost to all of us.
    How has membership been since Tom and Perry were ripped from the airwaves? How the hell did they get booted from the Outdoor Channel? George started that channel! It fires me up when I think about it.

  • @timjohnson9406
    @timjohnson9406 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Blast from the past!! I loved watching these,great to see this i hope there's more.

  • @stustanski3912
    @stustanski3912 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Lived in Tuolumne City and used to watch every show, think of how much gold is in the Stanislaus and Tuolumne forks since dredging has been outlawed

  • @beverlymoore9524
    @beverlymoore9524 Před 3 měsíci +1

    WOW! So glad to see You and Your Family Again ❣️

  • @wellroundedwildones3376
    @wellroundedwildones3376 Před 3 měsíci

    Love it. Sitting here in Sonora.

  • @anthonywill9672
    @anthonywill9672 Před 3 měsíci +1

    So awesome!!!! Keep em coming, love this show 😂

  • @user-se5hb9kh5o
    @user-se5hb9kh5o Před 3 měsíci +1

    Tom massive is the reason why I metal detect 😂

  • @Bestoftheworstfishing
    @Bestoftheworstfishing Před 3 měsíci +1

    Can't believe it's already been 15 years since this episode came out.

  • @conqueringlion420
    @conqueringlion420 Před 26 dny

    I use to watch on late late tv when the buzzard. Get a hat on Tom for you and your girl

  • @WingmanJohnny
    @WingmanJohnny Před 3 měsíci

    Great video

  • @jackdavidson6813
    @jackdavidson6813 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Nice gold! It was funny watching your bucket drift away.

  • @wesleyweisberg8895
    @wesleyweisberg8895 Před 3 měsíci +2

    To fix your plug up problem, you really need to ditch that expensive, heavy, crappy dredge hose! I switched over to 4" black Polyethylene Corrugated Drainage Tubing. I cant stress how much of a difference using that tubing made!! Its light weight, cheap, can cut multiple lengths and the BEST PART... EXTREMELY RARE PLUGUPS. Because its ridged it rarely plugs up and works like a dream. In fact, I've never had a plug up in the tube since switching, only plug up location that I rarely get is at the nozzle or in the power jet. I'll never go back to dredge hose. EVER. I hope this helps!!

    • @jjmckay6man1
      @jjmckay6man1 Před 3 měsíci +2

      this was taped back in 2009 lol. you can't even use gas powered dredges anymore in California.

    • @wesleyweisberg8895
      @wesleyweisberg8895 Před 3 měsíci

      @@jjmckay6man1 they are not enforcing the ban anymore is what I'm told.

    • @jjmckay6man1
      @jjmckay6man1 Před 3 měsíci

      @@wesleyweisberg8895 if that is true then that is great.

  • @triple_A_rockhound
    @triple_A_rockhound Před 3 měsíci

    😎👍

  • @johndias6614
    @johndias6614 Před měsícem

    When did California allow dredging again?

  • @mikeobrien4437
    @mikeobrien4437 Před 3 měsíci

    MORE

  • @Donaldperson7
    @Donaldperson7 Před 3 měsíci

    Great job! That’s paid for the equipment!

  • @alejandroalatorre8229
    @alejandroalatorre8229 Před 3 měsíci

    Is this true?

  • @richardcrawford5879
    @richardcrawford5879 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Omg the industry jokes back

    • @goldbaron357
      @goldbaron357 Před 3 měsíci

      Nah, pretty sure that title goes to the first season of Gold Rush lol.

  • @markopittman2833
    @markopittman2833 Před 3 měsíci

    to bad they made this illegal. no more dredging

  • @silverclan2020
    @silverclan2020 Před 3 měsíci

    100 % SALTED PANS

  • @user-yy4up8qf5m
    @user-yy4up8qf5m Před 3 měsíci

    Too bad the "wife-anator" was too busy to haul a couple of loads before she had to go shopping!

  • @conservativerealist
    @conservativerealist Před 3 měsíci +1

    Salted show

  • @richardcrawford5879
    @richardcrawford5879 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Fake!!!!

  • @crazedgoldminner7384
    @crazedgoldminner7384 Před 3 měsíci

    My name is Ken Valentina it was a member since 2015 of the GPA and ldma and it all went downhill it's a big rip-off now and they salt the claims there is no gold on the South fork of the Stanislaus River worth digging for I have lived here and worked here for 30 years there is no gold there don't get suckered in by these crooks

  • @silverclan2020
    @silverclan2020 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I call bull on this production... I have Never seen any person pull nuggets out that large in that amount in a few days work ... All More like a TV show production... also Dredging is not allowed in California as far as I know since Gov. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger & Sierra Club got a ruled passed against Dredging... So yeah More acting ... than real gold work ... just saying... and if you wanna prove me wrong I live in the central valley not far from Sonora & Italian bar, Jamestown's Woods Creek, Peppermint Creek... so show me ... prove me wrong !!!!

    • @BurtKingery
      @BurtKingery Před 3 měsíci +2

      This episode was released before the dredging ban.

  • @ALDProspector
    @ALDProspector Před 3 měsíci +1

    Awesome!! Please keep them coming!